Next Js Daily: Defaults Shift and a Batch of Bug Fixes
Next.js moved two major experimental features to on-by-default, while a wave of smaller fixes targeted stale state and configuration mismatches across the Pages Router, ESLint plugin, and dev tooling.
Duration: PT2M49S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Next Js Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Next Js Daily
- Published: 2026-08-02T22:00:14Z
- Audio duration: PT2M49S
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Good morning. It's August 2nd, 2026, and this is Next Js Daily.
Today's biggest signal: the team is turning on features by default that used to require opt-in, while a large batch of fixes cleans up stale or mismatched state across the framework.
Start with defaults. Tim Neutkens shipped two changes moving experimental flags to default-on. PR 96493 enables the Turbopack build filesystem cache for everyone, including generic CI, with an explicit opt-out still available. PR 96497 does the same for the project-local TypeScript CLI checker during builds,…
The second theme is stale state. PR 96492 fixes a real production bug: after ISR revalidation in the Pages Router, shared CSS modules between static and dynamically-imported pages could get removed from the page and never restored, breaking dynamic page rendering. PR 96503, from Neutkens, adds a regression test…
A third cluster worth noting: configuration correctness. PR 96501 fixes TypeScript module resolution defaults for TypeScript 6 and newer. PR 96504 and PR 96480 both fix the ESLint plugin's "no HTML link for pages" rule to actually respect custom page extensions from next-config, instead of hardcoding defaults. And…
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